Live landing on a comet!

[mirth]

This is very cool - but I am a little set back that it was the Germans who pulled it off :/

Better this than invading the Low Countries

[mirth]

go play:

http://www.purdue.edu/impactearth/

No data on Liv Tyler and animal crackers?

[GDS_Starfury]

believe me.
if you landed on Liv Tyler the world has truly ended.

[mirth]

believe me.
if you landed on Liv Tyler the world has truly ended.

I'd accept that end.

[Gusington]

What if mirth took the Low Countries and then Liv? Or Lvov?

[mirth]

I'd go for an anschluss with Liv.

[GDS_Starfury]

I dont think his gf would like that very much.

[Staggerwing]

This is very cool - but I am a little set back that it was the Germans who pulled it off :/

Better this than invading the Low Countries

If the Germans tried to invade again this time they would march into the Red Light District and never be seen again.

[GDS_Starfury]

the rules there have had a drastic overhaul.

so Ive heard.   ::)

[MikeGER]

This is very cool - but I am a little set back that it was the Germans who pulled it off :/

a lot of other European nations had there contribution too, its amazing that it worked (more or less) nevertheless ;-) 

its amazing! that's not X-Rebirth , Elite Dangerous or Kerbal  ...we all witnessed the real deal  8)

race to an object that is 28 light minutes away, not just hit it, but gentle approaching it in a way to swing into an orbit where nucleus gravity let a 100kg object on Earth feels a gravity pull of just 1 Gramm... and then ballistic drop a 'bomb' probe on that irregular rubberduck shaped rotating object of 4x2x2 km with precision to place a hit into a 400m circle. 8)   

unfortunately the lander is not anchored
well, it still feels a gravitational pull of 1gramm , so i think it will stay or gently retouch if it had re-bounced somehow
and was floating

analzing the last press infos that got public available between the lines, i guesstimate it landed in 'a powder snow'-like soft material and is partially submerged ...the harpoons either didn't got triggered (to smooth impact) or fired into powder

consider the whole commet has a density of 0.4 g/cm^3   ...and the landing spot was selected to be smooth surface as far as the pictures allowed an estimate.

yesterday eve the LOS between Rosseta and the lander was interuppted while Rosetta orbit takes it to the other side of the commet. we will have new data packages now while Rosseta has rizen above the lander side again         

[bayonetbrant]

XKCD has a hilarious animated version of the live landing

[Staggerwing]

That is great!

[MetalDog]

I especially liked that they thought to include whales in the whole thing.

[Staggerwing]

^That made me think of the poor falling whale in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe.

[MetalDog]

My thought exactly.  They included fish an dolphins, too.  Sounds like someone knew what they were doing ;)